Saturday, November 10, 2007

Cheez Waffies

Remember Cheez Waffies?

We received eight (8) bags of orange cheezy goodness from a relative. Since "Cheez Waffies" is one of the top searches that brings new visitors to my blog, even more than "bald love", these pictures should up the number of visitors considerably. Behold the stash of Cheez Waffies:

Special thanks to Just Me for taking the lovely Cheez Waffie pictures.

Visitors:Please refrain from posting comments telling me where I can buy Cheez Waffies. Hint: I am also perfectly able to do searches and find them for sale various places online. My husband is also more than capable of finding sources for HIS Cheez Waffies online, should he desire them.

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Book ratings

very highly recommended: highly recommendedrecommended so-sonot recommended did not finish

A "stuck overnight at the airport book" means this book will keep you up, awake, and entertained with minimum trips to find coffee or a distraction.

An "airplane book" rating means it is an engaging book that will hold your attention but you won't cry if you lose it or misplace it.

yearly book lists

John Updike's six rules for reviewing:

1. Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.

2. Give him enough direct quotation--at least one extended passage--of the book's prose so the review's reader can form his own impression, can get his own taste.

3. Confirm your description of the book with quotation from the book, if only phrase-long, rather than proceeding by fuzzy precis.

4. Go easy on plot summary, and do not give away the ending.

5. If the book is judged deficient, cite a successful example along the same lines, from the author's oeuvre or elsewhere. Try to understand the failure. Sure it's his and not yours?

To these concrete five might be added a vaguer sixth, having to do with maintaining a chemical purity in the reaction between product and appraiser.....Review the book, not the reputation.... Better to praise and share than blame and ban. The communion between reviewer and his public is based upon the presumption of certain possible joys in reading, and all our discriminations should curve toward that end.

The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.

Orson Scott Card, in introduction to Ender's Game, pg. xxv

He Wishes For The Clothes Of Heaven

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half-light,I would spread the cloths under your feet:But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.